1856-?. Oliver Franklin Grover. Made printers' tools. He invented a clamp or slide stick used by printers.  Patent No. 204,432, 4 Jun 1878.  The last location for his shop was on Butternut Street.

Patents issued or assigned to this company or one of its owners. See ref. 24 for additional 

Connecticut patents. The second item has the wrong number listed in ref. 24. I changed it to "0".

Name				Pat.No		Item			Issue Date

Grover,Oliver F.		15358		Composing stick	7/15/1856
Grover, O. F.		0		Printers rule mitering tool

									5/29/1860
Young,Robert Clark		108549		Composing stick	10/18/1870
Assigned to Grover
Grover,O. F.			204432		Composing stick	6/4/1878
Assigned to W. Quail & Grover

References:  14, 24      Back Home

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